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Old Jan 8, 2002 | 5:14 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by manfromoz:
I travelled through the US in December for the first time in a couple of years and not being a US passport holder noticed that the 'random' gate searches were not 'random' for me or for my partner, 10 from 10.

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On the reverse side of that, I have been using my US passport as ID ever since the 11th and have never been 'randomly' selected. But one time as I sat waiting for my flight I played "who would I pick to search if I was doing the searching?", all four of the people I would have picked were AND three of the four had non-US passports.

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